Tag Archives: 1978

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Kawashima, Kajima, and Sadakuni spend their days riding motorcycles and terrorizing/raping young girls. Kawashima is overly protective of his little sister, Megu, who does not know about her brother’s terrible activities. REVIEW: Angel Guts: High School Co-Ed, or Jokosei: tenshi no harawata, is the first film in a series of nine Angel Guts films, most of …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After being bitten by a bat in a cave, a doctor undergoes an accelerating transformation into a man-bat, which ruins his vacation and causes considerable distress for his wife. REVIEW: I have a confession to make. When I sat down to watch this flick, I was not in the best frame of mind. I was in …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A psychic’s girlfriend finds out that a lump on her back is a growing reincarnation of a 400 year-old demonic Native American spirit. REVIEW: Oh yeah…Now we’re talking movie greatness acolytes! What’s that you say? You’ve never even heard of this movie before? If you’re one of the few that are actually admitting to that then …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Sarah, an orphan with telekinetic powers is accepted to a prestigious university along with her perfectly normal stepsister, Patty. The two girls attempt to join the most renowned sorority on campus, but only Patty is accepted. Sarah joins a rival sorority overseen by the eccentric Mrs. Hunter, who takes an unhealthy interest in Sarah’s psychic abilities. …

Rate This Movie  SYNOPSIS: A woman is terrorized by an unknown stalker and must take matters into her own hands when the police refuse to do anything to stop him. REVIEW: Strangely enough I had never even heard of Someone’s Watching Me! until I watched it recently (which is odd because John Carpenter wrote and directed it and I am …

SYNOPSIS: A young man walking through the desert encounters a pendant and oversized lasergun that gives him the power to destroy. REVIEW: Michael Rae’s Laserblast (1978) is one of the most enjoyable and best “worst” movies I’ve ever seen. Long a staple of 16mm syndicated television airings on independent channels it’s a ridiculously delightful slice of Southern California/cheesy science fiction …

SYNOPSIS: In this Star Wars take-off, the peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes orders from his mother (played by a comic actor in drag) rather than the Emperor. King Kaiba sends out eight Liabe holy seeds, each to be received by a chosen one to defend the Gavanas. Each recipient, ranging …

SYNOPSIS: A spaceship containing specimens for an intergalactic zoo crashes on Earth near a small back woods town. The specimens escape, and soon town folk are turning up mutilated. Very low budget feature was the first for Baltimore filmmaker Don Dohler. REVIEW: While watching The Alien Factor, I started thinking about the Spanish Inquisition. I was a history major in …

SYNOPSIS: An outlaw smuggler and her alien companion are recruited by the Emperor of the Galaxy to rescue his son and destroy a secret weapon by the evil Count Zarth Arn. REVIEW: If you’re a fan of the show Mystery Science Theater 3000 and watched the Netflix continuation of that show, you might recognize Starcrash. It was one of the …

SYNOPSIS: When her husband disappears in the deep dark jungle a woman and her brother hire a team and head there to find him. Unfortunately they run across a cannibalistic tribe once they get there and not everyone survives. REVIEW: I am just not really into the cannibal movies that were all the rage in the 70’s and early 80’s. …

SYNOPSIS: A vicious creature emerges from the canals of Venice California preying on dogs before graduating to human victims. A curious high school journalism teacher investigates the gruesome murders, discovering evidence that the beast is the product of nuclear radiation leaking from a nearby plant. He teams up with a local fisherman, and the intrepid duo set out to destroy …

SYNOPSIS: A deranged man stalks and kills a number of prostitutes and offers them up as sacrifices to a goddess during Mardi Gras. REVIEW: I watched Mardi Gras Massacre several years ago and just couldn’t really get into it. I watched it again recently and much to my surprise I actually enjoyed it a lot more (I think my younger …

SYNOPSIS: Mimi Miceli Jr. is, the son of a Mafia don who was exiled back to Sicily. He wants to get back into the family business and transplant it from New York to Hollywood. After the kidnapping for ransom of a West Coast Mafia boss, Mimi is back in the “life.” With the blessing of the local clan, Mimi attempts …

SYNOPSIS: This notorious 1970s women in prison classic, finally available for the first time in North America. Taking a cue from Don Edmond’s classic Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS, Helga moves the action to South America, where she lords over a castle of female political prisoners, who are stripped and tortured at whim, until local rebels help them fight …

Rate This Movie  SYNOPSIS: When filmy spores fall from space and take root in San Francisco, the city is beautifully transformed by spectacular and exotic flowers. But these lovely extraterrestrial blossoms have gruesome plans for their earthly admirers: to slowly clone their bodies and then dispose of the originals! “A first-rate suspense thriller” (Newsday), this sci-fi adventure is a “chilling” …